Infant&#39;s undergarment.



E. R. ROYCE.

INFANTS UNDERGARMENT. APPLICATION FILED APR.9, 1914,

1,110,459. Patented Sept. 15,- 1914 wmvmsw;

ELIZABETH It. ROYCE, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

KNFANTE U'NDEEGARMENT.

mindse Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Sept 15, 31914.

Application filed April 9, 191%. Serial No. 830,687.

To all 207mm it may concern Be it known that I, ELTZABETH Heron, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Camhridg'e, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ini'ants Undergarments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to undergarments and particularly to what are known as infants bands. These garments as ordinarily made are of knitted material and are provided front and back with tabs projecting therehclow to which a diaper or other nether garment may be attached by icons of pins. As now made these tube are slightly reinforced to prevent tearing by the pins but the strains put upon the knitted fabric thercabove, especially soon as the child begins to kick, creep and Walk, result in the garment being quickly torn and the life of the garment is not nearly as long as it should be.

The object 01 my invention is provision of a garment which shall be so made as to be reinforced to take up the strains imposed on. the portions above the tab and which will at the same time yield to accommodate the bandto the movements of the wearer. According to my invention this result is accomplished by providing a reinforcing strip extending from the bottom 01'. the tab to or near the top of the garment and so constructing the strip that, While of stronger material than the remainder of the garment (which latter is usually or wool) it will. yield to a consideral'ile strain and will distribute such strain substantially throughout the height of the garment-instead of concentrating it just above the tab as in the present article. This can he most conveniently accomplished in the manner shown in the accompanying single sheet of drawings in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment embodying one form of my invention? and Fig. 2 is a cross section, on a much larger scale, of a portion of the garment shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings A indicates a garment of the type known as an infants band, pro vided front and rear with tabs 5 and 7 to which other garments may be attached by pinning. This garment is made of knitted mat rial, preferably Wool though 1 do not limit myself to that material, and providcd with reinforcing strip S of woven woven material, as opposed to knitted of which the remainder of the garment is made, the strip S is relatively unstretehing and so, when a strain is placed upon. the strip, the fullness will be taken up gradually from the bottom toward the top On account of the unstrctching character of the strip it will communicate to the portion of the knitted fab ic adjacent any particular part only the proper proportion of the strain placed upon the strip-that is to say up to the ooint Where the entire becomes tautand any additional strain placed upon the strip will be communicated to a point farther up. Tearing oi the knitted .tahric of the garment due to the movements of the child wearing it' will. therefore he effectually avoided.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to strengthen Woven material garments by the addition of Woven material reinforcing strips along the lines of greatest strains. However, both these materials are unyielding, the result obtained by the addition of the reinforcing strip is merely to make this unyielding character more certain. Garments constructed in such a mannor are not suited to the purpose to which infants bands or the like are to be put. This is for the reason both that these materials are by nature unsuited to use as infants undergarments on account of their texture but also because these garments should stretch to a certain degree and so afford the child Wearing them freedom of movement. it is therefore essential, according to my invention, that the reinforcing strip employed, While calculated to distribute the strain throughout the garment, should also be oi a yielding character.

While I have described my invention in connection. with an infants hand, in which embodiment I consider it to be the most useful, I do not Wish to limit myself to that particular garment but I may apply it to any garment of a yielding character which it may be desired to reinforce due to strains being epplied to it at some particular point or points.

Having thus described my invention, what means a subs-ta e nenfi oesuwpio seem-e 7 Letters i; A garment comprising a knitted body portion; means to which another garment may be. secured; and a reiziiforoing stripwi Woven material extending from said securing tie dismnee across said garment, eeici strip being atmehed-f full when the garment is'in an mush-etched Condition.

2. A garment comprising a. knitted body portion, a tab projeoeing tnerel'oelow, anci a reinforcing srlrip ofworen materiel extending from said tab subsmntieliy to the top the garment, said earip being et ifiacheo' full when the garment is in an uns roizehed. condition,

emerge 3. A garment comprisin e knitted body portion, a tab projecting t erebe10W,'-and a I taut when said knitted portion is stretched.

In testimony whereof, I'have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two.

Witnesses.

Witnesses ALBERT F. Aims,

HENRIETTA A; DAVY.

ELIZABETH R. ROYCE. 

